Workshops
Past Workshops
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Mar23
Many of us rely on Wikipedia, but how many of us have added or revised content on the online encyclopedia? How would you use Wikipedia with students in the classroom? What would you need to run an edit-a-thon with a cultural institution? What do aspiring Wikipedia editors need to know?
In this workshop, Jami Mathewson from the Wiki Education Foundation will talk about why Wikipedia’s quality is so important and how students can improve academic topics through a classroom assignment. In contributing content to Wikipedia – one of the world’s largest digital public humanities initiatives – students gain skills in media literacy, fact-based writing, research, collaboration, and critical thinking. You’ll learn about best practices for using Wikipedia as a teaching tool and how Wiki Ed can support you and your students. Jami will also discuss the Wikipedia Year of Science and ways to participate in this initiative. This event will appeal to both teachers and students interested in the potential uses of Wikipedia in various educational contexts.
About Jami: Jami Mathewson develops partnerships with academic associations to increase participation in Wiki Ed’s programs, bring content expertise into the organization, and improve the availability of information related to their disciplines on Wikipedia. She identifies ways to support partners who are looking to promote the use of Wikipedia as a teaching tool on a large scale — including help with publications, printed materials, conference presentations, training new participants, and documenting metrics and outcomes.
This event is co-sponsored by the Brown University Library Center for Digital Scholarship, the Instructional Technology Group, and the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. For more information, please email Jim McGrath ([email protected]). -
Feb23This workshop offers a comfortable and laid-back space, with mood light and music, for participants to engage freely with the capaciousness of the erotic, through poetry and photography, and using Audre Lorde’s writing as a starting point. The session will include a guided reading of Lorde, poetry prompts and freewriting, and the opportunity to take photos of the erotic self (which does *not* have to be an image of yourself). Photographs taken during the workshop will be printed on the spot and returned to participants so that they can write on, mark up, collage, or otherwise augment the images however they choose. We will provide various crafting materials, props, and supplies. The aim of this workshop is to provide a playful and open-ended setting for participants to reflect on the empowering potentials of erotics.
Participants’ creations will be displayed, with consent, in a subsequent exhibition that will be on display for two weeks in the Garage Gallery where this workshop will take place. After the exhibition concludes, we will work to facilitate the return of exhibition pieces to their creators. -
Mar15Come learn the basics of how to run an oral history interview! Participants will have the opportunity to take their own oral histories after training and exchange ideas on incorporating oral history into future projects. Curators: Alyssa Trejo and Elizabeth Mathews, with Dr. Lauren Yapp. Register here if you plan to attend.
This series is a part of the Public Humanities Lab at the Center for Public Humanities, where Public Humanities graduate students curate exhibitions and public programs that probe questions about art, memory, heritage, culture and sensation.
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Mar16
Come learn the basics of how to run an oral history interview! Participants will have the opportunity to take their own oral histories after training and exchange ideas on incorporating oral history into future projects. Curators: Alyssa Trejo and Elizabeth Mathews, with Dr. Lauren Yapp. Register here if you plan to attend.
This series is a part of the Public Humanities Lab at the Center for Public Humanities, where Public Humanities graduate students curate exhibitions and public programs that probe questions about art, memory, heritage, culture and sensation.
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Apr65:30pm - 6:30pmQ&A with Amy Starecheski (Oral History MA Program, Columbia University)
Nightingale-Brown HouseStudents: Come learn about the Columbia University’s Oral History MA program with the program’s director Amy Starecheski. Columbia University’s Oral History Master of Arts Program is the first program of its kind in the United States: a one-year interdisciplinary MA degree training students in oral history method and theory. Through the creation, archiving and analysis of individual, community and institutional histories, they amplify the critical first-person narratives that constitute memory for generations to come. Light refreshments will be provided.
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Feb2Join RISD MDes Priyata Bosamia in a creative stamp-carving workshop. Around a community table, we will explore what happens when our individual marks come together to build a collective artwork.
This event is a part of RE/GENERATE, a bi-weekly creative humanities workshop series that engages with themes of regeneration, creation, and remix. These sessions offer space for thinkers, artists, makers, and dreamers to build relationships, learn new skills, and engage in creative practice. The series will feature 6 participatory workshops throughout the Spring semester and culminate in a collaborative, accumulating exhibition that will open on May 11, 2023.
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Feb16The workshop will be led by Traci Picard (MA’23) and Erica Wolencheck (MA’23)
Sign-up is required (registration form is here). Materials will be provided.
This seminar brings us together to create crocheted florals in the spirit of “free-form crochet.” Each participant will have the choice to create leaves, flowers, or any combination of fiber botanicals, which we’ll attach to an interconnected vine that unites our project into one crocheted “ecosystem.” We welcome people of all crochet experience levels to join us in creating these manifestations of Spring!
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Mar27:30pm - 8:30pm
RE/GENERATE: Poetry Lost and Found: Poesía Perdida y Encontrada
Nightingale-Brown HouseIn this workshop led by Sophia Marina and Jamila Medina Ríos, we will assemble poems out of the words, phrases, and fragments of text that envelop us daily. Recorriendo ciudades, calles, muros señales del tráfico, librerías y libreros, marquesinas de cine con el dedo. Using generative strategies, poetry reflective of ourselves and our surroundings will emerge. Te invitamos a encontrarte con y en un poema. Bring your own materials: fotos, citas, el blasón de tu apellido, tu graffiti favorito, un volante del camino…
Sign-up is required (registration form is here).
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Mar812:00pm - 4:00pmRevival Archival Revenge, Week 1 of Artist’s Residency & Workshop
Nightingale-Brown HouseWeek 1, Bibliomancy: Collections, Collages[using chance to guide us, we will let the books and magazines in the collection speak, and record their words in collages. participants may take their collages home or contribute them to the installation.]12-2pm / Workshop with the Artist / Spaces are limited; Register to attend HERE (Required); Lunch will be provided.2-4pm / Artist’s Open Studio / Drop-ins are welcomeWhat happens when the past that we have preserved needs to change? REVIVAL ARCHIVAL REVENGE is a participatory project by artist-in-residence Diana Limbach Lempel. It will explore how the Colonial Revival, which began in the late 19th century, constrains our possibilities for engaging with the past, while at the same time giving us tools for reimagining the ways we remember and forget. The elite white women who led the Colonial Revival movement considered ghosts and their own intuition as powerful informants. Both inspired by and critical of those women, we will play with texts and artifacts as tools for divination and destruction, and create archival records of our dreams and the air. We will also wonder about our relationship with forgetting, in our time of digital archiving. The project will culminate in an installation in the library and a zine which documents the project and offers prompts for ongoing revival archival revenge in everyday life.
Diana Limbach Lempel is the creator of Annsisters, a multidisciplinary, speculative project that asks questions about memory and gender in New England history. Annsisters began in residence at the exhibition Visionary New England at the DeCordova Museum in 2020. Diana has been a Mass Humanities Scholar in Residence with the New Bedford Working Waterfront Festival, the Doing History Curator at History Cambridge, and the Visiting Curator at the Amherst Historical Society Museum. With a background in urban planning and design, Diana founded and ran a teen summer program in public history and design, and from 2016-2019, she founded and co-directed Practice Space, a storefront art and humanities space and retail shop in Cambridge, MA. She offers workshops to professional and community historians, including “Listening is Emotional Labor.” She can be found on Instagram @the_annsisters, annsisters.com and dianalempel.me.
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Mar1512:00pm - 4:00pm
Revival Archival Revenge, Week 2 of Artist’s Residency & Workshop
Nightingale-Brown HouseWeek 2, Lingua Ignota: Samplers, Secret Messages[working with diana’s collection of antique embroidery samplers, we will stitch nonsense symbols, play OUIJA with their letters, and try to deduce the hidden messages left behind for us by girls 200 years ago ]12-2pm / Workshop with the Artist / Spaces are limited; Register to attend HERE (Required); Lunch will be provided.2-4pm / Artist’s Open Studio / Drop-ins are welcomeWhat happens when the past that we have preserved needs to change? REVIVAL ARCHIVAL REVENGE is a participatory project by artist-in-residence Diana Limbach Lempel. It will explore how the Colonial Revival, which began in the late 19th century, constrains our possibilities for engaging with the past, while at the same time giving us tools for reimagining the ways we remember and forget. The elite white women who led the Colonial Revival movement considered ghosts and their own intuition as powerful informants. Both inspired by and critical of those women, we will play with texts and artifacts as tools for divination and destruction, and create archival records of our dreams and the air. We will also wonder about our relationship with forgetting, in our time of digital archiving. The project will culminate in an installation in the library and a zine which documents the project and offers prompts for ongoing revival archival revenge in everyday life.
Diana Limbach Lempel is the creator of Annsisters, a multidisciplinary, speculative project that asks questions about memory and gender in New England history. Annsisters began in residence at the exhibition Visionary New England at the DeCordova Museum in 2020. Diana has been a Mass Humanities Scholar in Residence with the New Bedford Working Waterfront Festival, the Doing History Curator at History Cambridge, and the Visiting Curator at the Amherst Historical Society Museum. With a background in urban planning and design, Diana founded and ran a teen summer program in public history and design, and from 2016-2019, she founded and co-directed Practice Space, a storefront art and humanities space and retail shop in Cambridge, MA. She offers workshops to professional and community historians, including “Listening is Emotional Labor.” She can be found on Instagram @the_annsisters, annsisters.com and dianalempel.me.
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Mar167:30pm - 8:30pmRE/GENERATE: Didn’t It Rain Children?: Building an Audiovisual Monument to the Women, Queer and Transgender Activists of Our Past and Present.
Nightingale-Brown HouseIn her rendition of the turn of the 20th-century gospel song “Didn’t It Rain”, mother of modern music Sister Rosetta Tharpe calls out “Didn’t it rain children? Oh, didn’t it rain?” In our contemporary moment we are dealing with a flurry of socio-political attacks, the rights of women, transgender people, indigenous people, immigrants, the right to education and more are being repealed and our lives claimed to be invalid. When it rains, it pours. In this workshop, we will utilize audiovisual mediums that range from archival footage, performance, music, interviews, news reports and more to build a monument to the work of the women, transgender and non-binary activists who have fought, and continue to fight for all of our freedoms. In recycling these A/V materials we give new life, new context and new power to moments of the past in the present.
This workshop will be lead by Rai Terry (MA’22)
Registration is required. RSVP here.
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Mar2212:00pm - 4:00pm
Revival Archival Revenge, Week 3 Artist Residency & Workshop
Nightingale-Brown HouseWeek 3, Archiving the Ether: Automatic Writing, Wild Yeast[ collaborating to bring wild yeasts from the air together into a community, we will mix a batch of sourdough starter and let the same air guide our hands for drawing and writing. what will the building itself tell us? ]12-2pm / Workshop with the Artist / Spaces are limited; Register to attend HERE (Required); Lunch will be provided.2-4pm / Artist’s Open Studio / Drop-ins are welcomeWhat happens when the past that we have preserved needs to change? REVIVAL ARCHIVAL REVENGE is a participatory project by artist-in-residence Diana Limbach Lempel. It will explore how the Colonial Revival, which began in the late 19th century, constrains our possibilities for engaging with the past, while at the same time giving us tools for reimagining the ways we remember and forget. The elite white women who led the Colonial Revival movement considered ghosts and their own intuition as powerful informants. Both inspired by and critical of those women, we will play with texts and artifacts as tools for divination and destruction, and create archival records of our dreams and the air. We will also wonder about our relationship with forgetting, in our time of digital archiving. The project will culminate in an installation in the library and a zine which documents the project and offers prompts for ongoing revival archival revenge in everyday life.
Diana Limbach Lempel is the creator of Annsisters, a multidisciplinary, speculative project that asks questions about memory and gender in New England history. Annsisters began in residence at the exhibition Visionary New England at the DeCordova Museum in 2020. Diana has been a Mass Humanities Scholar in Residence with the New Bedford Working Waterfront Festival, the Doing History Curator at History Cambridge, and the Visiting Curator at the Amherst Historical Society Museum. With a background in urban planning and design, Diana founded and ran a teen summer program in public history and design, and from 2016-2019, she founded and co-directed Practice Space, a storefront art and humanities space and retail shop in Cambridge, MA. She offers workshops to professional and community historians, including “Listening is Emotional Labor.” She can be found on Instagram @the_annsisters, annsisters.com and dianalempel.me.
Upcoming Workshops
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Apr137:30pm - 8:30pmRE/GENERATE Workshop | Drawing the Line: Composing Lived Experience
Nightingale-Brown HouseIn this workshop, led by Alison Rollins, MFA, we will reimagine the timelines of our lives through the medium of a single-line drawing. Our drawings will then be circulated to each of the other participants who will respond to guided prompts to “read” and creatively “translate” the drawings into written words/language and then gestures and/or sounds.Sign-up is required (link is coming soon and will be posted here).
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Apr27Save the date for the final Re/Generate Workshop. Details about this workshop are coming soon.
